The other General Lee, and not kin to the more famous one, Stephen Dill Lee was a veteran of the early Virginia campaigns, Vicksburg, the Atlanta Campaign, and ended the war with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in North Carolina. After 1865 Lee was deeply involved in reviving his own plantation, and later dedicated his life, as Robert E. Lee did earlier, to educating young Southern men who faced the challenge of rebuilding their devastated country. In late April 1906, he delivered a speech in New Orleans to the sons of the men he led in battle. In his remarks he said:

“To you, sons of Confederate veterans, we will commit the vindication of the cause for which we fought. To your strength will be given the defense of the Confederate soldiers’ good name, the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those principles which he loved and which you love also, and those ideals which made him glorious and which you also cherish.”
Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.com The Great American Political Divide

General Lee’s New Ideas in Education

“In 1880 General Lee became the first president of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, now Mississippi State University. [The father] of industrial education in the South, no other citizen had such a far-reaching and penetrating influence upon the agricultural and industrial development of the Southern States.

Lee advanced in his day a new thought to Southern-bred collegians. He believed that education and manual labor should go together.

In making his first report to his Board of Trustees, he said: “All students are required to work from two to three hours a day . . . on the farm, among the stock, in the garden . . . shops or grounds . . . Our experience shows that students who work . . . stand highest in their classes and enjoy better health. It also inculcates and retains habits of industry at that period of life when education is being obtained . . . It makes labor honorable and demonstrates that labor and a high standard of liberal and scientific education are not incompatible, and go hand-in-hand with the struggle of life, and in developing our industries and resources . . .”

Lee warned the South that unless its farmers learned the science of modern agriculture their lands would be owned by strangers. “Knowledge is power,” he said, “in every department of life – as important to the farmer as the professional man.”

He foresaw that electricity would play in the industrialization of the South, and in his report of 1893 he wrote:

“I deem it most important that the boys of Mississippi be instructed in an electrical laboratory to fit them for industrial pursuits now just ahead.” That same year he began a crusade for an appropriation to equip such a laboratory and provide electric lights for the college grounds and dormitories.

At times combatting an unsympathetic legislature and the hosts of ignorance, “Old Steve,” as he was affectionately called, pioneered with new methods of instruction and introduced departments in the mechanical arts and engineering.

Experiments at the college revealed the surprising fact that cotton seed, which had been a waste and a liability, had a feed and food value, and a new industry emerged from the soil. The first creamery in the Gulf States was established at the college and the foundation laid for a more diversified agricultural development.

Under Lee’s leadership the advantages of diversified agriculture and drainage were fully demonstrated and the value of scientific farming definitely proved among a people whose methods were comparatively primitive.

The cultivation of better grasses and the introduction of improved herds changed the agricultural complexion of the “Magnolia State” [and] graduates went forth with a new faith in farming. The development of this new idea in education spread to other States and created a demand for students to fill positions as teachers, managers of farms and creameries, and professors and instructors in other agricultural colleges and at agricultural experiment stations.

Stephen Dill Lee died in 1908. In the devastation that followed in the wake of Appomattox, with a social order disrupted, an economic system destroyed, and the flower of Southern manhood killed or maimed, Lee the soldier became a builder.”

On the 21st of this June, Americans celebrated the 228th anniversary
of the nation’s Constitution, making it the world’s oldest existing
governing body of laws. It was then that our founding fathers met in
their effort to form a union more perfect than the one under which the
thirteen sovereign states had been operating since 1781, the original
Articles of Confederation. While the new document was written and
ratified in a far different age by men who certainly could not have
foreseen what their new nation would become more than two-and-a-quarter
centuries in the future, their extraordinary prescience has allowed the
basic document to withstand the tests of time and travail. As proof of
this, aside from the first ten amendments to the Constitution (eleven,
if one counts the latest Congressional salary amendment in 1992 which
was ratified over 202 years after its initial submission with the Bill
of Rights in 1789), out of the more than 11,500 changes that have been
proposed by Congress over the years, our nation has seen fit to actually
amend the original document a mere sixteen additional times.

Even though the new Constitution injected the hope of insuring
domestic tranquility, the following seven decades of the nation’s
history were anything but tranquil.

In the next 24 hours and coming days, Democrats and their media
allies will focus on a singular moment in the third and last 2016
presidential debate.

Debate moderator Chris Wallace of FOX News asked Donald Trump if he
will accept the result of the election. It was ironic because Trump was
asked an identical question about the results of the Republican primary
during the first GOP primary debate in August of 2015 by a debate
moderator from FOX News. It should also be pointed out that Hillary
denounced Trump’s response but never answered the same question
directly.

In the next 24 hours and coming days, Democrats and their media
allies will focus on a singular moment in the third and last 2016
presidential debate.

Debate moderator Chris Wallace of FOX News asked Donald Trump if he
will accept the result of the election. It was ironic because Trump was
asked an identical question about the results of the Republican primary
during the first GOP primary debate in August of 2015 by a debate
moderator from FOX News. It should also be pointed out that Hillary
denounced Trump’s response but never answered the same question
directly.

Expect a full-on non-stop attack from Democrats and the media about
this which will be framed as Donald Trump being a threat to American
democracy.

The attacks will be complete garbage and Donald Trump is absolutely right. Here are three reasons why:

1. The Media: The media has repeatedly made it clear
that they’re on the side of Hillary Clinton and that they want to
destroy Donald Trump. We’ve had media bias in the past but nothing on
the scale of what we’ve seen in this election. Don’t you think the media
will be in a mad rush to declare a Clinton victory on election night?
You better believe they will.

2. Voter Fraud: Democrats have engaged in voter
fraud over the years but again, we’ve never seen it on the scale that’s
happening in this election. Investigations are under way in Colorado,
Indiana and Virginia. Not to mention the recent explosive videos from
James O’Keefe. Do you accept that? Of course not. Why should Trump?

3. Democrats in 2000: Democrats did not accept the
results of the 2000 election in which George W. Bush bested Al Gore.
They fought it in congress, they fought it in the media, they fought it
throughout Bush’s presidency.

Hillary Clinton claimed the Heller decision was about toddlers. It was
actually about whether a 66-year-old police officer had the right to
keep a gun at home.

During the final presidential debate on Wednesday night, Democratic
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told another unbelievable whopper
about the country’s gun laws. In her answer to a question about her
views on gun rights, Clinton said she opposed the Supreme Court’s Heller
decision, which recognized the constitutional right for individuals to
own and carry firearms, because it was about whether toddlers should
have guns.

The Obama White House attempted to do damage control in a press
conference Wednesday after a question was asked about Democratic
operative Robert Creamer’s numerous visits to the White House.

In an exclusive interview with James O’Keefe – the filmmaker and investigative journalist behind the blockbuster videos that
forced the resignation of Robert Creamer from the Hillary Clinton
campaign – Breitbart News has learned that more material connecting
Creamer and the White House is on the way.

When asked about Obama’s relationship with Creamer, spokesman Josh
Earnest told reporters, “I’m not sure that there is much of one,” and
added, “I know that they’ve met before.”

According to publicly available White House visitor logs,
Creamer has visited the White House 340 times in the past seven years.
During that period he has visited the POTUS himself at least 45 times,
and in 2008 and 2012 “he worked with the Democratic National Committee
as a consultant to the Obama Presidential Campaign coordinating
field-based rapid response to Republican Presidential candidates.”

DNC interim chairwoman Donna Brazile categorically denied that she received a debate question on the death penalty in advance
in an interview with Megyn Kelly after the third presidential debate
(unrelated to the debate in question). The question was for a Democratic
primary town hall hosted by CNN and co-moderated by Roland Martin, the
journalist who asked it at the forum. This information was revealed in a
recent Wikileaks dump of John Podesta's emails.

Hillary Clinton in last night’s presidential debate tried to avoid
talking about the substance of the damaging WikiLeaks disclosures of DNC
and Clinton campaign officials by claiming 17 U.S. intelligence
agencies determined that Russia was responsible for this. After Clinton
made this claim, she scolded Trump for challenging U.S. intelligence
professionals who have taken an oath to help defend this country.
What Clinton said was false and misleading. First of all, only two
intelligence entities – the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence (DNI) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – have
weighed in on this issue, not 17 intelligence agencies. And what they
said was ambiguous about Russian involvement. An unclassified October 7,
2016 joint DNI-DHS statement on this issue said the hacks.

The 13th batch of John Podesta’s hacked emails from WikiLeaks is out and this one caught our eye.
Maybe Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, Robby Mook and the Clinton Global
Initiative can tell us more about this $12 million donation in exchange
for a meeting with Hillary Clinton?

& I now remember (thanks to the comment below) that the Boston Tribune is satire. Sorry. It used to be a respected paper, went out of business and started up recently in their new format.

First Grandma Marian Robinson, 79, will receive a lifetime 160K
government pension when she leaves the White House next year, according
to congressional budget statements.

According to documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA), Mrs. Robinson earned the lifetime pension for “services
rendered as full-time/in-home caregiver” for granddaughters Malia, 18,
and Sasha, 15, during President Obama’s two terms in office.

In January of 2009, it was reported that Mrs. Robinson was living in
the White House full-time to tend to her granddaughters. She was the
first live-in grandmother at the White House since Elivera M. Doud, the
mother of Mamie Eisenhower, during the Eisenhower Administration.

Critics say Mrs. Robinson should not profit from something as simple
as taking care of family. Sally Kellner, volunteer/activist for the National Taxpayers Union,
says this is a prime example of needless spending. “I think it’s
ridiculous that taxpayers must pay this woman a lifetime salary for
something everyday Americans do for free. We take care of our families
because we love them, not for profit.”

When asked if Mrs. Robinson’s lifetime pension was justified, Senator
Mike Enzi (R-WY), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, declined to
comment but said a special oversight committee would review all
post-Obama Administration budgetary obligations.

America is a nation in decline. Sadly it is a decline that is as much or
more one of deliberate manufacture as it is one of historical entropy.
The signs are all around us but no one in the political class or the 4th
estate possesses the courage to openly face it or call out those
responsible for it, well because it is that same political class and the
4th estate that bear the largest responsibility for it. Eight years ago
we were fed a massive caravan of horse shit under the rubric of "Hope
and Change". It didn't take a genius to see at the time that it was all a
lie, but anyone who dared point that out was ignored, silenced or
condemned as a slow witted racist at best if not a card carrying member
of the KKK at worst. Nevermind that all one had to do was read Obama's
own works to see that he was/is just as racist as any real Klan member.

No, no we were told. Judging the man by the words of his own
discriptions would be so unfair. We must confine our judgements to the
perspectives of the politicians and pundits who supported him and the
lofty rhetoric of his latest stump speech. Drawing any inference as to
his character by that of those with whom he had long associated or self
defined as his roll models and mentors would just be to unfair. His
history was irrelevant. All that mattered was what he said subsequent to
announcing his candidacy and in the historical significance of his
being the first black man to be nominated by a major political party.

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.